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All men are created equal? Barack Obama and the American Revolution
par Steven Sarson,
publié le 28/03/2019
- Barack Obama believes that the American nation's founding documents—the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution (including the Bill of Rights)—have been the driving forces of American history and remain the foundations of American politics today. In this talk we will explore Obama's analyses of these documents and of their legacies since, in particular in relation to slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow, and Civil Rights. We will look at the words of Barack Obama, as derived from his writings and speeches, and also at historical sources from the time of the American Revolution, through the Civil War, and to the Civil Rights era.
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Negotiating the Transformations of History
par Clifford Armion,
publié le 27/01/2014
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This is an extract from Angela Davis's The Meaning of Freedom, a collection of speeches and papers dealing with the author's life-long struggle against oppression, inequality and prejudice.
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Kate O'Riordan: Visions of Ireland - A writer's view
par Kate O'Riordan,
publié le 17/09/2013
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A Londoner by adoption, Kate O’Riordan grew up in the small city of Bantry on the west coast of Ireland. With Le Garçon dans la lune, published in 2008 and Pierres de mémoire, in 2009, O’Riordan signed two new remarkable opuses in which she questions family relationships. A novelist and short-story writer, Kate O’Riordan also writes for the cinema and continues to confirm her legitimate place among Irish authors who count. She came to the Villa Gillet to take part in a discussion on 'Ireland by Irish writers'.
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Keith Scribner: Representation and Psychology of Conflict
par Keith Scribner,
publié le 27/08/2013
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In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech William Faulkner famously said that all real meaning in fiction comes from the human heart in conflict with itself. As a novelist I’m compelled by the internal conflicts inherent in the stories we tell ourselves in order to live and how those stories come to define us, how they allow us to justify our actions and possibly delude ourselves about who we are. Like any narrative, these stories help us shape otherwise disparate experiences into a comprehensible form. Over time we become so heavily invested in these narratives that when their veracity is challenged, the resulting conflict can be explosive.
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Kate Chopin as a Vocal Colourist: Vocalscapes in “Beyond the Bayou”
par Manuel Jobert,
publié le 16/04/2013
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Authors sometimes pepper their writings with features of orality. Charles Dickens, Emily Brontë, Thomas Hardy or George Bernard Shaw have become household names renowned for this propensity to rely on the vocal medium. Orality, however, is an umbrella term that covers a wide range of possible meanings. In this paper, I shall mainly be concerned with direct speech and the way it represents spoken discourse proper.
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« A boldness of free speech » : le “discourse”, une réponse anglaise aux enjeux des guerres de religion en France ?
par Marie-Céline Daniel,
publié le 19/09/2011
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De nombreux pamphlets traduits du français et publiés en Angleterre témoignent de l'intérêt croissant des Anglais pour l'actualité française à la fin des années 1580, au moment où l'accession d'Henri de Navarre sur le trône de France paraît de plus en plus probable. À la fois narration des faits et mise en garde face à une possible contagion du mal français à sa voisine d'outre-Manche, ces textes entretiennent des relations ambigües avec le pouvoir anglais. Progressivement, leur forme de pamphlet évolue pour donner naissance à un nouveau genre, le « discourse », qui cherche à dépasser la confrontation de thèses antagonistes pour réconcilier la nation.
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Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories: An Introduction
par Emilie Walezak ,
publié le 28/06/2011
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Katherine Mansfield wrote short stories exclusively and produced a large body of work though she died quite young from tuberculosis when she was 30. She is one the best representatives of modernist short story writing. Virginia Woolf herself admitted to Mansfield that she was jealous of her writing: "and then Morgan Foster said the Prelude and The Voyage Out were the best novels of their time, and I said damn Katherine! Why can't I be the only woman who knows how to write?"
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Randall Kennedy on Obama's victory
par Randall Kennedy, ENS Lyon La Clé des Langues,
publié le 03/02/2011
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Cette page propose un article de Randall Kennedy, professeur de droit à Harvard, sur la victoire de Barack Obama aux élections présidentielles. Ce document est accompagné de questions de compréhension générale et détaillée, ainsi que d'un exercice de grammaire.
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Barack Obama's Inaugural Address
par ENS Lyon La Clé des Langues,
publié le 31/01/2011
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Cette page propose une vidéo du discours d'investiture de Barack Obama. Ce document est accompagné de questions de compréhension générale et détaillée, ainsi que d'un exercice de phonétique.
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Race Relations and the Presidency of Barack Obama
par Randall Kennedy,
publié le 05/03/2010
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I attended the inauguration of Barack Obama with two million other people who created the largest crowd in the history of Washington, D.C. Although I grew up in the nation's capital, I had never before attended an inauguration. None had previously beckoned. But this time I felt compelled to be present. The sentiments that gripped me were similar to those that animated many who attended the proceedings.
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Interview de Randall Kennedy
par Randall Kennedy, Clifford Armion,
publié le 01/02/2010
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Lors de son passage à la Villa Gillet, en janvier 2010, Randall Kennedy s'est exprimé sur la dimension historique de la dernière élection présidentielle américaine. Cet évènement culturel s'est tenu le soir même où Barack Obama prononçait face au congrès américain le traditionnel discours sur l'état de l'union. Le lendemain, Randall Kennedy, professeur de droit à Harvard et membre du barreau de la Cour Suprème des Etats-Unis, accordait une interview à Clifford Armion, responsable de la Clé des langues.
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Les Etats-Unis de Barack Obama : "The Race Question"
par Randall Kennedy,
publié le 01/02/2010
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Lors de son passage à la Villa Gillet, en janvier 2010, Randall Kennedy s'est exprimé sur la dimension historique de la dernière élection présidentielle américaine. Cet évènement culturel s'est tenu le soir même où Barck Obama prononçait face au congrès américain le traditionnel discours sur l'état de l'union. Le lendemain, Randall Kennedy, professeur de droit à Harvard et membre du barreau de la Cour Suprème des Etats-Unis, accordait une interview à la Clé des langues.
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The spoken word and the written word in Paul Auster’s The Brooklyn Follies
par Catherine Pesso-Miquel,
publié le 16/10/2009
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This article analyses the construction of voices in Paul Auster’s The Brooklyn Follies, in which the paradoxical relationship between printed signs on a page and phonemes uttered by human bodies is fore-grounded. Auster revels in creating lively dialogues that are carefully inscribed within a particular voice through the use of didascalia, but he also celebrates the physicality and euphony of a narrative voice which navigates between elegiac lyricism and sharp-witted humour. The Brooklyn Follies, like all Auster’s books, is a book about books, but this one is also a book about tales and story-telling, about speech and silence, and the very American tradition of tall tales.